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During an interview on Faux News, Donald Trump told Sean Hannity that the November 8th presidential election was going to be rigged. However, he conveniently forgot to mention the inconvenient truth that almost all of the rigging thatâ€™s going on is in his favor â€” and that much of it is being perpetrated by Republican lawmakers, who are taking advantage of a much-weakened Voting Rights Act.

While striking down one particularly onerous piece of legislation in the GOP state of North Carolina â€” which in addition to requiring voter ID, cut early voting, and eliminated same day registration, out of precinct voting, and pre-registration for those under 18 â€” the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court judge noted that the measures â€œtargeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.â€

It comes as no surprise that these GOP laws target people of color, who tend to vote overwhelmingly blue. Indeed, recent polls in Pennsylvania and Ohio have found that Trump is getting absolutely no support â€” zero, zip, zilch, nada â€” from Black Americans!

In this weekâ€™s Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Election Crimes Bulletin, the Sherlock Holmes of voting shenanigans, Greg Palast, and Flashpointsâ€™ Dennis J. Bernstein discuss the North Carolina decision that struck down the stateâ€™s anti-voting law, alongside similar recent rulings in Texas, Wisconsin, and North Dakota. (A more temporary decision, which came down on July 29, also reversed vote suppression measures enacted by Kansas Secretary of State, and Vote-Rigger-In-Chief, Kris Kobach.) But first, Palast and Bernstein address Trumpâ€™s â€œconcernsâ€.

TRANSCRIPT (Originally broadcast on Aug 3, 2016)

Dennis J. Bernstein:Letâ€™s start with Trump and his claims of potential voter fraud. Hereâ€™s what Trump said about his fears:

â€œIâ€™m telling you, November 8th, we better be careful because that election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely, or itâ€™s going to be taken away from us.â€

He went on to promise â€œa bloodbathâ€ if the Democrats attempted to â€œsteal the election.â€ Well, Greg, it looks like weâ€™re back right in the middle of your hysteria factory.

By Greg Palast. Updated from the original article published onTheMudflats.net

Note from TheMudflats.net: In 2011 Karl Rove wrote a column calledÂ â€œWhy Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012â€ – Rove was betting on North Carolina to be a swing state for the Republicans… Romney took the state but to Rove’s surprise he failed at stealing Ohio for the third time. Just Google “Karl Rove Meltdown,”Â and you’ll see a video fromÂ Fox News election night, he did not take it well.

After the knock-down of the Voting Rights Act by the US Supreme Court earlier this year North Carolina jumped at the chance to …more